November 29, 2012 Theme: If I Had A Billion Dollars

Tonight’s theme was "If I Had A Billion Dollars..." and the meeting was called to order on time by Tony.  Tony gave us a top 10 list of the richest Billionaires in the world.  Next, Tony introduced Keith S., our chair for this evening.  In his opening remarks, Keith gave some information on Canadian Billionaires and what they are worth.

The only agenda change for this evening was that Apryl would be the Grammarian and Laugh Counter.

Keith M. was then introduced to do the Joke of the Day.  Keith had two short jokes, both of which were related to the theme.

Audrey was the Toast and Timer and led us into the Toast to Canada.

The word of the evening was "wealth", a noun with several meanings, one of which is abundant worldly possessions.  Apryl's choice of word was fitting to the theme.

Literary corner was next with John reading and article titled "The Dying Art of Conversation".

Speeches were next and tonight there were two.  Vern was first with his speech "Old Age".  His evaluator John read the speech objectives. The speech was about what it means to grow old and how does one know when you are old.  He was followed by Val and her speech "The Art of Gathering", a way on how to keep teenagers fed on a budget.  Val's evaluator was Apryl who also read the speech objectives.  Both speeches were well done and a minute for written evaluations followed each speaker.

Table Topics was done by Brent.  He had everyone write down how they had earned a Billion dollars on a slip of paper.  When done the papers were passed to the left.  When it came time to speak, the member could look at the slip of paper passed to them and then begin to tell the other members how they had earned the Billions based on what the other person had written.  Like usual, a wealth of laughs were heard.

Tony was up again as the General Evaluator.  He first asked for the speech evaluations to be done for Vern and Val.  John was first to evaluate Vern's speech followed by Apryl's evaluation of Val's speech.  Next, Tony asked for the general reports.  Audrey gave her report as the Toast and Timer, followed by Apryl who gave her Grammarian report.  The word of the evening had been used seven times and Apryl had also recorded 60 laughs.  Last, Brent gave his report for Table Topics.  This week the winner was John.  Tony concluded this section by giving his General Evaluation of the meeting.

The last section before the Chairperson concluded the meeting was the Quizmaster Report.  This was done by Apryl, and she challenged our memory on various things that members had said throughout the night.

Keith S. then took control of the meeting again for the final few items.  Anything for the Good of Toastmasters was discussed, as well as the assigning of roles for next week's meeting.  Keith then gave his closing remarks and brought the meeting to an end.